Re: Improvement - Rss Feed storage in bookmarks

I talked with the FoxMarks folks and they are not sure what info will be synced in FF3, for example annotations (which would be the natural spot to store stuff) may not be.

But I have been working on this for FF2.  What I have is the following:

Proposal: When a feed is updated, the feed URL and update time are added to the description of a special NewsFox bookmark.  There will be an option to get update times off the bookmark rather than the local one.  If using the bookmark option, all articles will be downloaded, but only the ones timestamped after the bookmarked update time will be marked as unread.

Discussion: This does nothing to sync feeds, but you may have different feeds you look at on different machines and not want feeds to be synced.  If you do want to sync feeds, export an OPML and then add to existing feeds on the other machine.  This won't help with pruning, but you can add feeds from scratch for that.  Example: when traveling I check a smaller subset of feeds, don't want the feeds synced, just the update times.

You may miss articles being marked as unread, because feed authors don't really treat timestamping as meaning the current time.  Many feeds put out articles dated well ahead or behind when they are posted.

Ideas? Comments? Would this give you what you want(are willing to accept :))?

This is not really a feature I will use, but if there are ideas that can be implemented relatively easily (as proposal above), I am willing to put them in.